Having a bad morning? Are those 5 cups of coffee not crankin’ you up to speed? Is that hangnail totally mindfucking you out of your day? Hey, my sweet turnipfaces, don’t sweat it. This super nerdgeekscientificbraingasm post from Buzzfeed.com reminded me that I’m a selfish prick, and you probably are, too. Now let’s all take a few minutes to feel those same warm and fuzzies!

So, this is you:

1. This is you from about 30,000 feet. Cruising altitude:

2. This is you from 100,000 feet:

3. Someone jumped out of a balloon from this height, back in 1960:

In this Aug. 16, 1960 photo made available by the U.S. Air Force, Col. Joe Kittinger steps off a balloon-supported gondola at an altitude of 102,800 feet. In freefall for 4.5 minutes at speeds up to 614 mph and temperatures as low as -94 degrees Fahrenheit, he opened his parachute at 18,000 feet.

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22. But as massive as stars are, they’re microscopic compared to galaxies they live in. This is our galaxy, the Milky Way:

23. Oh, by the way, the closest galaxy to ours, which also has billions of stars, is going to slam into us eventually. Here’s what NASA thinks it will look like from Earth:

This will happen in four billion years, which seems like a long time. But the Earth did exist four billion years ago, and it might well exist then. This probably wouldn’t end well for us, whatever “us” will mean in 4,000,000,2012 AD.

24. So yes, there are millions, billions, and sometimes trillions of stars in each galaxy. But how many galaxies are there? In 2003, NASA pointed the Hubble telescope at a minuscule dark patch in the night sky: